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Under Scrutiny, Google Spends Record Amount on Lobbying New York Times (blog) By NICOLE PERLROTH | April 23, 2012, 3:12 pm With Congress and privacy watchdogs breathing down its neck, Google is stepping up its lobbying presence inside the Beltway — spending more than Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft combined in the first ...           Google boosts Web bug bounties to $20000 Computerworld By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Google today dramatically raised the bounties it pays independent researchers for reporting bugs in its core websites, services and online applications. The search giant boosted the maximum reward from $3133 to $20000, ... See all stories on this topic » Google's 1Q lobbying bill triples to $5 million USA TODAY By Michael Liedtke, AP Mark Lennihan, AP Mark Lennihan, AP SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's US lobbying bill more than tripled to $5 million during the first three months of the year amid increased government scrutiny of the Internet search leader's ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY Google Should Stick It to the EU PC Magazine Google has been very amenable to complaints from legal authorities, but now it's time for the company to take a stand. By John C. Dvorak Google goes out of its way to appease the various judicial systems worldwide to minimize the amount of copyrighted ... See all stories on this topic » Google Bumps Its Rewards For Friendly Hackers To As Much As $20000 Per Web Bug Forbes On Monday Google announced that it's now offering as much as $20000 to researchers who find new ways to hack its web services and then report those security vulnerabilities to the company's security team to help them fix the flaws. See all stories on this topic » Oracle counsel quizzes Google's Rubin about Java emails ZDNet (blog) Google trial to testify about licensing discussions regarding Java. SAN FRANCISCO – Google's senior vice president of mobile, Andy Rubin, took the stand on Monday afternoon during the ongoing intellectual property trial between Google and Oracle. See all stories on this topic » In Oracle Trial, Google's Android Boss Confirms Java Talks With Sun Wired News By Caleb Garling Google's Andy Rubin — the man who oversees Android — took the stand on Monday during the company's ongoing legal battle with Oracle. Image: karitsu/Flickr As the trial over Android's use of the Java programming language entered its ... See all stories on this topic » Why Google and Facebook Are Spending Record Amounts On Lobbying Forbes TechCrunch reports that 2012 marks record spending in DC for both Google and Facebook. In the first quarter of 2012, Google dropped over $5 million in lobbying dollars, while Facebook spent $650000 (which is measly by comparison, but is already almost ... See all stories on this topic »

Ex-CEO Schmidt gets $101M pay package in new Google job USA TODAY By Michael Liedtke, AP SAN FRANCISCO – Shifting from Google's CEO to executive chairman proved to be lucrative career move for Eric Schmidt. Google awarded Schmidt a compensation package valued at $101 million last year, according to a Friday ... See all stories on this topic » USA TODAY

Google Ordered to Stop Copyright Violations on YouTube New York Times BERLIN — In a provisional victory for musicians, filmmakers and other creators of art and entertainment, a court in Hamburg on Friday ordered Google to install filters on its YouTube service in Germany to detect and stop people from gaining access to ... See all stories on this topic »

Google must do more to police YouTube music use San Francisco Chronicle A Hamburg court partly ruled in favor of a suit brought by German music royalty-collecting society GEMA that argued Google doesn't do enough to monitor YouTube content. Google must implement features to detect violations if a rights holder alerts the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google ex-CEO's salary rises to $1.25 million from $1 Reuters By Alexei Oreskovic | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's (GOOG.O) former chief executive Eric Schmidt received a bump in his annual salary to $1.25 million from the $1 he received in the previous year, after he became the executive chairman of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Schmidt Gets Pay Raise After Leaving CEO Post Wall Street Journal By JOHN LETZING When former Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt stepped aside to take a new role at the company about one year ago, he also left behind his symbolic $1 annual salary. Google raised Mr. Schmidt's annual salary to $1.25 million from ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Google removes Toyota ad from YouTube video of Camry crash Los Angeles Times By Jerry Hirsch Google said it has removed a Toyota advertisement sponsoring a horrific YouTube video of an elderly Florida women losing control of her Camry and blowing through shoppers at a Publix supermarket, injuring 10 people. See all stories on this topic »

A Quixotic Quest to Mine Asteroids Wall Street Journal By AMIR EFRATI A new company backed by two Google Inc. billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target. See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Google execs, director Cameron in space venture Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, ... See all stories on this topic »

Motorola Mobility Triples CEO's Pay Following Google Deal BusinessWeek By Hugo Miller on April 20, 2012 Motorola Mobility Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Jha received compensation of $47.2 million last year, when he negotiated to sell the handset maker to Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG), more than triple his pay ... See all stories on this topic »

Google vs. Oracle: Round one MarketWatch Google Inc. lawsuit appears to threaten the phone and tablet OS. Google has too much riding on the Android OS to allow any legal action to damage its position, so this is a non-trivial case for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) . In the case of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) ... See all stories on this topic »